Pulverizing



(No Model.)

7 J; STEPHENS. PULVERIZING, SBELQING, AND FBRTILIZING HARROW.

No. 283,160. Patented Aug. 14 1883:,

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* UNITED STATES JOHN STEPHENS, OF

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HANOVERTON, OHIO.

PULVERIZING, SEEDING ,,AND FERTILIZING HARROW,

SPECIFICATION forming part pf Letters Patent No. 283,160, dated Augustl l, 1 883.

, Application filedMareh29,1883. (No model.)

T (LE whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOHN 'STEPnENs, of

Hanoverton, .in the countyof Columbiana and a State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Pulverizing, Seeding, and Fertilizing Harrow, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description. A

The invention consists of the combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Reference is to'be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved machine. ing the manner of connecting the teeth. Fig. 3 is a detail of the devices for connecting .the wheelrinis in perspective view; and Fig. 4 is a detail of the, seed-dropper, in section.

I make the revolving drums similar to rollers, except the shells are of flat sections of planks a, in which the teeth Z1 are inserted by screwing through the planks into a metal bar, 0, which has tapped holes to serve for nuts to secure the teeth, each plank or section having one row of teeth, and the planks being suitably secured to castiron or other approved heads 6, which are suitably journaled in the frame-bars (Z, to which the tongue f is secured,

. and which will in practice extend beyond the back of the drums and have a connectingbar behind them to balance the tongues.

WVith a rotary harrow of this construction,

containingpock ets t, for dropping, and being geared with one of the drums to be revolved thereby, thus making a simple contrivance for.

Fig. 2 is a detail in section, 'showseeding or fertilizing and harrowing in the seed or fertilizer.

- The dropper It may be geared with the drum by the chainj and pulleys is Z, or any approved means, and the pockets may be varied incapacity by means of blocks, to be put inor taken out as required for the different kinds of seeds or other substance to be dropped.

I find a harr'ow of this kind to be very uscwith right and left connecting-screws, o, to

gethcr with detachable bracket-arms having feet q and points 8, for connection to the drum,- and notch 15, for the rims to rest in, whereby the rims may be readily applied to the drums and removed therefrom as may be needed to,

prepare the harrow for removal from place to place and for service in the field.

For small rollers to be worked by hand for garden use I propose toinserttheteethin simple plain rollers, of wood, instead of theabove described arrangement of hollow rollers and screw-connection for the teeth.

Having thus described my invention, I: claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of detachable wheelrims m with a revolving drum-barrow, substantially as described.

'2. The combinationof the jointed whee].- rims m, connectingscrews 0, and the detachable bracket-arms p, wit-h the revolving drumharrow, substantially as described.

- JOHN STEPHENS. fitnesses: A DAN S. WVEAVER, A. SHIRsBY. 

